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- Consciousness of our powers augments them.
- Vauvenargues
- Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts.
- John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
- Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.
- Author Unknown
- The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
- Bertrand Russell V. Delong
- Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are."
- Halford E. Luccock
- Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
- George Woodberry
- When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
- Author Unknown
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